Saturday Academy Associate Instructor, 9-10th ELA (Spring 2024)

Title: Saturday Academy Associate Instructor (ELA)

FLSA: Part-time, Seasonal

Department: SF Scholars Program

Reports To: Manager of Teaching & Learning 

Compensation: $40 (Hourly) 

Location: In-Person –  Laney College campus in Oakland

Dates: Spring Semester; Exact Saturday dates of programming vary based on which Grade Instructor is placed (see specific dates below)

 

ABOUT SEO SCHOLARS

SEO Scholars is a non-profit focused on improving educational outcomes for students that come from underserved and historically underrepresented backgrounds. Our free eight-year academic program gets low-income public high school students to and through college–with a 100% college admissions rate and 90% college graduation rate. For 60 years, SEO has been an innovator in education and mentorship programs. We are on a mission to create an ecosystem of excellence in which our students can achieve their full potential.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Associate Instructors will join SEO’s community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school students.  Using our original curriculum and a student-centered approach to teaching and learning, Associate Instructors play an integral part in supporting our Scholars’ journeys to a competitive college and beyond. Associate Instructors promote depth of understanding and skill acquisition by serving as a coach and facilitator of learning. Associate Instructors co-teach ELA for 9th or 10th grade Scholars.

Associate Instructors are the first to cover classes when instructors are out. Associates co-teach alongside Instructors to facilitate classroom instruction, teach mini lessons, organize small group and one-on-one instruction, and provide additional Scholar support. Associate Instructors do not have grading responsibilities.

DATES, SCHEDULE, & WEEKLY HOURS 

Instructor Orientation: 

• • 9th Grade Instructor Orientation:
    •  Instructor Orientation: 2/10
    • Scholar Orientation: 3/2. 

• Spring Saturday Academy: Typically 3 Saturdays a month, exact dates vary based on which grade instructor is placed. Due to our staffing needs and only seeing Scholars once a week, we cannot support more than 2 absences a semester. Please note that our 9th Grade program runs on a different schedule than our 10th Grade program. This should be considered when determining your grade-level interest. Saturday Academy Programming is held on campus from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PT) on the following Saturdays: 

9th Grade Saturday Academy: 

• 8 Saturdays: 3/9, 3/16, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11

Schedule: 

• ELA Associate Instructors co-teach four 50-minute lessons to groups of approximately 20-25 Scholars. Your schedule will also include an instructional prep period.
• Individual teaching schedules will vary within the 9:00 am-4:00 pm instructional time frame.

Weekly Hours: Associate Instructors are allotted 8 maximum hours per week during their seasonal employment, made up of Standard and Flex Hours.

• Standard Hours are when the instructor must be working on site with staff or students instructing a class or engaging with an instructional prep or support period:
• Saturdays, 9:00am-4:00pm (with at least a 30 minute lunch) = 6 Hours/weekly
• Flex Hours make up the additional “instructor work” educators know go into the job. This is time spent preparing for the lesson, grading, entering gradebook data, writing Scholar feedback, communicating with staff and Scholars, etc. These are hours put in outside of the required schedule and can be completed asynchronously throughout the week = up to 2 Flex Hours/weekly

There will also be future opportunities for Summer and Fall semesters

SITE LOCATIONS: 

9th Grade Saturday Academy Programming will take place at: 

• Laney College campus: 900 Fallon St, Oakland, CA 94607; Buildings D & E; off the Lake Merritt BART stop

COURSES

9th Grade ELA Curriculum: “Theory of Intelligence”

• In this course, Scholars will critically analyze the idea of intelligence. We will look at how intelligence has been defined in mainstream culture, how and why this definition has excluded marginalized and underrepresented communities and